A user on the online forum 4chan has leaked a massive 270GB of data purportedly belonging to The New York Times. This leak includes what is claimed to be the source code for the newspaper’s digital operations.

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    1137 months ago

    Subscription software. Tracking software. Ad tools. Promotion tools. Tools for journalists.

    The website is just what you see.

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      197 months ago

      Yeah, I guess I didn’t consider all the other operational shit that goes into providing content and funding for the website.

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        227 months ago

        It’s why our PCs have gotten insanely fast but websites still load like fucking trash. All the back end spying shit takes up a ton of cpu cycles. If you don’t already have em run ublock origin and no script and the internet is so fucking speedy 😆

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          7 months ago

          That’s not what makes websites slow. It’s React.

          Retards with React. “I’m optimizing user experience”

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            57 months ago

            Yeah. You got yourself covered no script helps with JavaScript being pesky. But breaks a lot of shit tbh.

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              You can still make it work, it’s just more stuff to click on. I used to use NoScript too, but eventually stopped using it.